On Tue, 2007-09-18 at 15:17 -0600, Eric Lemings wrote: > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Ralf Wildenhues [mailto:Ralf.Wildenhues@xxxxxx] > > Sent: Tuesday, September 18, 2007 1:32 PM > > To: Eric Lemings; autoconf-patches@xxxxxxx > > Cc: autoconf@xxxxxxx > > Subject: Re: Multi-Line Definitions > > > > Hello Eric, > > > > * Eric Lemings wrote on Mon, Sep 17, 2007 at 11:53:23PM CEST: > > > > > > I have a Autoconf M4 macro that defines a multi-line preprocessor > > > symbol. > > [...] > > > How hard would it be to handle such macro definitions? Is it even > > > possible? > > > > Multi-line AC_DEFINEs are not supported currently. Recently (in > > Autoconf 2.60), support for multi-line AC_SUBSTs has been implemented. > > Here it is useful to consider that users may generate output > > files that > > will not be input to a C preprocessor, but some other, > > similar language. > > True. In that case, perhaps the behavior should be language-dependent? No, AC_DEFINE => c/c++ preprocessor, only. If you're using them elsewhere, something is broken with your use-case. Ralf _______________________________________________ Autoconf mailing list Autoconf@xxxxxxx http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/autoconf
